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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Tulsa, OK

September 23, 2000Franklin County, Arkansas

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Sep 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 23, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Franklin County, AR

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1484 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 2000-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
6.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KTSA 240002
SVRTUL
ARC047-240045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
700 PM CDT SAT SEP 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 700 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE           
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM COMBS TO VESTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 
MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...CASS      
...CECIL...OZARK AND BRANCH.

THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH.

LAT...LON 3585 9402 3568 9411 3547 9361 3570 9349

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.